Duan Qinqin came to the kitchen in a hurry.

Xiao Liu scooped a bowl of soup with invitation, blew it gently, and brought it to Duan Qinqin's mouth: "Miss Qin, you taste this soup."

Duan Qinqin took a sip very seriously, tasted and thought for a while, nodded first, and then shook his head and said, "The first fragrance of this soup is there, and the tail fragrance is still a little worse."

Xiao Liu smiled happily: "If I can get Miss Qin's praise, Xiao Liu will be satisfied."

As he spoke, he carefully lifted the stewed chicken down and asked, "How can this soup have the fragrance you say?"

Duan Qinqin rolled up his sleeves and began to choose vegetables.

"When you take this soup, it is fresh and refreshing, but it is scattered all of a sudden, and there is no sweetness."

She pointed to the various spices on the side of the kitchen and said to Koyanagi.

"You add a little fresh stone olives to it and simmer it over low heat, and the fragrance will slowly linger in your mouth; In winter, you can also replace the olives with black garlic, so that the flavor of the soup will change from fragrant to warm and rich. ”

Koyanagi took a careful note, put a few olives in as she suggested, and continued to stew.

Because he asked again: "Fang Caiqing saw that my sister came to ask you to go to the study, why did you do it?"

Duan Qinqin looked at Xiao Liu jokingly: "Sister Xiao Liu, you don't seem to be sticking to Huaiyu much this time?" In the past, you always followed Huaiyu wherever she was, and it stands to reason that you haven't seen each other for many days, but today Huaiyu is back, you should be the most active person to go out to pick her up, why are you still busy in the kitchen so calmly? ”

Koyanagi gave her a sad look.

"Ever since the girl has Zhao Shizi by her side, my position in the girl's heart has plummeted, alas."

Duan Qinqin smiled "poof", dare to love Sister Xiaoliu is also jealous?

Xiao Liu continued to complain: "I can't complain about the girl, I'm a maid, and I'm so big in front of the girl, if you think about it, it's a little inappropriate."

"Tut-tut, Sister Xiaoyanagi listen to you." Duan Qinqin smiled, "Don't say Huaiyu, even if it's my mother and grandmother, who treat you as a maid?" ”

Xiao Liu also smiled, tasted the soup gently, nodded with satisfaction, and said to Duan Qinqin: "Come, taste it again, is there the tail fragrance you said?"

Duan Qinqin was busy, took a sip with his mouth free, and praised: "Not bad."

Xiao Liu covered the soup with satisfaction and came over to give Duan Qinqin a hand.

"Girl, she treats me like a sister, how can I not know? Over the years, Huaiyu has been busy with her, and I can't help, so I can only ask her behind her back, listening to her whispering every night, and being devastated by nightmares, I feel uncomfortable like a knife.

"Now that there is a son, the girl's nightmare is better, and to put it mildly, I, who is a sister, am also a little relieved.

"I'm not afraid of Miss Qin's jokes, Xiaoliu used to pester Huaiyu, first, I was worried that Huaiyu didn't want me anymore, and secondly, because Huaiyu was not in front of me, I always felt that she would be kidnapped by bad people......"

Duan Qinqin really smiled, put down the knife for cutting vegetables, washed his hands, and said, "Huaiyu was taken captive before?" Why do you have such concerns? Besides, Huaiyu has been able to do martial arts since she was a child, who can kidnap her? ”

Xiao Liu shook his head and said: "I can't complain about Miss Qin, you don't know, you and Huaiyu were only three or four years old at that time, Huaiyu is good at kung fu, and it will be after the age of six or seven."

"Huh?" Duan Qinqin stopped curiously, listened to Xiao Liu, and only listened to Xiao Liu continue, "This matter, if you talk about it carefully, is the reason why Brother Gu is reluctant to speak. ”

Duan Qinqin became more and more curious: "Sister Xiaoliu, don't go around in circles, talk about it quickly."

"When I was a child, Brother Zhao's house was not far from the General's Mansion, very close to each other, because Uncle Gu was a subordinate of the general, and Brother Zhao often came to the General's Mansion to tease Huaiyu, he liked Xiao Huaiyu, Mrs. also used to joke about him, when Huaiyu grew up, would it be good to marry him as a bride......"

Duan Qinqin pouted, remembering that night when she heard the drunken Gu Youzhao's babbling, her heart suddenly soured, but she quickly returned to normal and quickly poured a plate of cut chicken into the spicy oil pot.

"Ting", the smell of meat accompanied by the smell of garlic swept Xiaoyanagi's internal organs, Xiaoyanagi stood aside with his eyes, excitedly looking at the chicken in the pot that was getting better and better.

Duan Qinqin urged while stir-frying: "Sister Xiaoliu, you should continue to speak."

"That year, Brother Zhao took Huaiyu to his house to play, and Uncle Gu, that is, after Brother Zhao's father came home from the palace, he hurriedly asked Brother Zhao to run away with Huaiyu ......"

"Oops, Koyanagi! Don't go around this far, get to the point. ”

"Isn't the point at the back?" Xiao Liu recalled, "I only know that the next day, dozens of people from the Gu Mansion all died at the hands of the Dingbei General at that time, except for Brother Zhao, none of the rest were spared."

"When the general and his wife knew that Huaiyu and Brother Zhao were going crazy, when the general found the two children in the dry well in the backyard of Gu's house, Brother Zhao's lips were white, and he hugged Huaiyu who had fainted tightly, and when he saw someone, he held Huaiyu to hide, and even his wife couldn't get close to ......"

Duan Qinqin's expression was heavy.

Pour the roasted pepper sesame chicken into a blue and white porcelain plate and carefully close the lid.

"So he didn't want to speak, is that what he started then?"

"Yes, poor Brother Zhao, lost all his relatives overnight, how can he accept it, although Huaiyu was young at that time, but Xu saw many scenes that were too cruel, had a big illness, cried day and night for many months, and then slowly got better, thank God."

"Why is General Dingbei so arrogant and openly slaughtering the Gu and Zhao family in Kyoto?"

Xiaoliu shook his head: "This thing is like the wind blowing through the hills, in the huge Kyoto, there is no splash at all, the Gu family disappeared in Kyoto overnight, and no one stood up to speak out."

"Where's Uncle Gu?"

"General, he connected a few folds, and soon after was sent to Furong City by a holy decree."

Duan Qinqin was thoughtful.

"I remember, that year, my aunt took Huaiyu to live in Linzhou for more than half a year, and it wasn't until the summer of the second year that I returned to Kyoto."

Koyanagi sighed.

And Duan Qinqin had no intention of cooking, and all he was thinking about was, what did Gu Youzhao's father do in the palace back then, and he actually caused such a tragic murder?

And what forcibly suppressed such a horrific and inhuman massacre?

Gu Youzhao has been suffering for so many years, how bitter has he been?

The more Duan Qinqin thought about it, the more sad he became, and he fried all the grievances and pity into the dish.

When the sky gradually darkened, Duan Qinqin took Xiaoliu and the maids of Xunyanlou to finally prepare a table of dishes full of color and fragrance.